I was playing ISteve10's and I'm working on the first level. is this a good place to ask for hints?
then I was looking at Gronklem's #1. An invisible level!  that's a good idea tho.

alright after I add more levels and spruce it up a bit I'll post it there.

thanx for the comments as well. Any criticisms or advice on making levels more harder/ or interesting is welcome.

I'll assume this is an appropriate place to post this. I uploaded a level set if anyone is interested (called TM1)
http://lemmings-db.camanis.net/levelpack/agpsZW1taW5ncy0zchALEglMZXZlbFBhY2sYkU4M/


First 5 levels are originals by me. the others are sort of remakes of levels from Revolution.
I'd like to make many more in the future. (hopefully make them harder too).
they're more of a test than anything by me to see how this all works. the first one utilizes glitch to work. Although the way it turned out i had to place the steel in such a way that makes it...
 well I'll talk about it if anybody is interested. let me know if you have a problem playing them. It's probably mistakes I made, I'm just learning to use this.

And I figured out the steel problem [that i posted about in help]. I just made many small pieces of steel instead of making one big piece. Thanks for the help.

also I wanna say thank you to the creators of this program. when I was a lot younger I use to draw my own levels on paper. Now I can do it for real.

I can't see myself using it in preference to, say, Lix. I've never even played Lemmings Revolution, which says something about my interest in that game I guess

I highly recommend it, as it's pretty much like the original except, much better graphics, easier interface (pausing with P, etc) wrap around level, & all the added cool stuff like switches. [which really add more puzzle possibilities, and strategies that i would say have barley scratched the surface in the game]  Of course, I should digress, as its not working properly on Windows 7 but it works on XP.  And there may be a way to fix it.

Quote from: ccexplore on 2011-12-27 17:08:44

I realize that being on a CD, many people might not even have a convenient way of obtaining the game to begin with.   (The files total to ~330 MB, and because they are basically packed into one big file whose format is yet unknown, even uploading it is tricky.)

Quote from: finlay on 2011-12-27 20:20:45

I found a RAR of the files and have them on my computer; however, I haven't been able to get them to work.

Recent development shows that the BOX file format is pretty simple, and more importantly, it is uncompressed so even though it is 330 MB, it likely compresses to something more manageable (though I haven't tried yet).  So distribution might not be that big a problem as I thought.

I'll have to dig a little more to see if I can help Finlay with getting the game to work with just the raw set of files, but I suspect it's probably not too bad of a problem.  Probably just need some entries in the registry.  Also, even when you choose to install as many of the files on your hard disk as the installer lets you, the game still bizarrely requires the CD because the cutscene movies never get installed on your hard disk (extremely annoying as it means a ridiciulous delay to spin up the CD every time it plays a cutscene movie, like whenever you win or lose a level " title="Angry" class="smiley" />).  I'm not sure if this can be avoided, but shouldn't be that bad to burn the cutscene movie files into a CD.

if you ask me, I can do without the cut scene movies, I just think they're kinda of annoying (maybe cause they're the only thing that works on Win7 and I'm playing music in the background then they come on and they're LOUD.  " title="Angry" class="smiley" />

(on Winlem) sometimes when I click on a lemming to assign it a skill nothing happens. It's not often but (Murphy's law) it's usually at a crucial moment. anyone else experienced this?

also this may be cause I'm using Windows 7 but the game crashes for me sometimes for no reason at all. But usually the longer I have the game running the more likely it crashes. Also I think opening and closing levels quickly can make it crash.

I play the version of Winlem that comes with Paintball, are there other versions? are there any differences?

• One-way wall triggers are too high - yes, you can still bomb and bash under the wall on Fun 11 / Taxing 18 for example.
  

how do you bash under the wall in Fun 11? (considering there's steel underneath)
EDIT- nevermind just figured it out! using a builder and bomber. wow, never thought of that.

Quote from: thick molasses on 2012-01-03 22:07:36

this game uses box files which seem to be rare

Just wondering, have you seen other games that use box files?

I have not. (Before posting that^ I looked ".box" up on a file extension info site and didn't find much of insight. However just now I looked it up again on a different sight and found something which may be very interesting.
What I did find was a mention of our game and link http://www.elberethzone.net/en/dup-supportedgames.html. Which is some person's site who makes a program that supposedly lets you open and hack game files. I'm probably leaping to conclusions but this may just allow you to modify the game, even make an editor! (I would myself but my knowledge of programming is extremely limited) Anyway I'm going to test this program out later.

and to get back on topic more glitches;
-you kinda of touched on this when u explained blockers I just I thought I's give a little more detail.
as to freeing a blocker: if you dig 3 digs down (4 digs is the best way btw) and bash across the blocker will stop the basher. But you can still bash your way through by "forcing the lemming" (it takes a few bashers) you'll get through but the basher will leave a tiny space of terrain where the blocker stands (thus not freeing the blocker.

-the "disappearing steps" thing I posted about;
 this only happens when you attempt to build in an area where terrain once was (in which a basher is still currently bashing through). So it could be handy for having one lemming build and be alone (the others will fall through the steps that "vanish". I don't think this happens at all with miners or diggers

unfortunately, this didnt work. I tried placing them at positions that were multiples of 4 and making them sizes that were multiples of 4, and saving but when I open the level up later it they still get re-sized. (always to the same positions) This may be a different problem because I just noticed that some other regular terrain pieces go missing as well.

thanx for the help

that's a frankly bizarre aspect of the game    Of course back in the day most games of that time had strange anomalies like this.
I'm not complaining however, this is a great program I enjoy using it.
the zooming thing doesnt really matter at all I was just curious.

btw, I just noticed the "applaud" and "smite" options on this forum